Nicholas Sparks TV: The best-selling author behind The Notebook is taking to the small screen. Sparks has put three television shows into development for cable channels: A Bend in the Road at TNT, The Falls at ABC Family and Deliverance Creek at Lifetime [The Hollywood Reporter].

Pop history: Classic music lovers lamenting today's pop world can embrace the past in a new book about the 125-year history of Columbia Records, which has employed artists such as Bob Dylan, Barbra Streisand and Johnny Cash.

Readers' Choice Awards: What was your favorite book of the year? More than 37,000 votes have already been cast for social reading site Goodreads' annual poll [The Los Angeles Times].

Angry at Amazon: How do booksellers feel about mega-online retailer Amazon? Not good. Many stores are refusing to stock books published by Amazon, despite the content, because they do not want to provide any support to the venture.